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    "id": 726887,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I take note that we are considering or noting a report of the President’s constitutional obligations under Article 132 that requires him to report to this House all the measures taken and the progress achieved in the realisation of the national values set out in Article 10 of the Constitution. I dare say that it is quite positive the kind of letter and spirit that we have put in our Constitution - a Constitution that I had the privilege of being part of the process of piecing together. Looking at our country today, what comes to mind is what Mahatma Gandhi famously called in a newspaper piece he published on 22nd October 1925, many years ago, the seven social sins. He listed them as wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice and politics without principle. When you look all around us in this country, you see so much manifestation of what Mahatma Gandhi called the seven social sins. Everybody wants to get wealthy and get wealthy now. Everybody wants to play politics without any principle whatsoever and that is why the primary focus of a political mobilisation has become the tribe. So, sometimes we are blinded to some terrible things happening amongst us or within the country and we are blinded merely by reason of tribe or by reason of political affiliation. Therefore, this goes to the conscience of the nation for us to ask seriously whether we are living by the principles we have set out in Article 10 of the Constitution. Report after Report will come here but until we have a fresh consciousness in this country, all this will just become a mechanical exercise which will not cause any particular transformation. We can blame each other. If you are out of government you will blame those in government. When you get into government you will join the same cyclic kind of behaviour and it becomes a vicious cycle. On the question of security, we must admit that we are in a crisis. Today, I was looking at a report of Amnesty International called the Amnesty International Report on Security in Africa for the Period 2016 to 2017. This Report indicates that as at October 2016, 177 extrajudicial killings had been reported in Africa. Out of this figure, 122 were in Kenya alone. Kenya accounted for 69 per cent of all reported extrajudicial killings in Africa. That is diabolical. There is something very wrong about our state of security. For instance, what is happening in the beautiful Kerio Valley is absolutely unacceptable. We are witnessing crimes against humanity. It is about time we called the ICC to investigate what is happening in the Kerio Valley. I challenge the Government that if there is anything that requires immediate urgent attention right now is to decisively handle the security crisis in the Rift Valley, of course besides drought. Until we deal with the question of equitable sharing of resources in this country, we shall continue---"
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